Now that you have your iPhone or iPod Touch syncing in Linux, how about putting some video on it? These iPods are picky about video formats, but the excellent Avidemux video tool can encode your videos to be compatible.
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OpenOffice.org Extensions: Writer's Tools
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One of the perqs of being a journalist is that I often hear about software and events before most people. A case in point is Writer's Tools, an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer being developed by my fellow journalist Dimitri Popov, whose articles about macros have taught me most of what I know on the subject.
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In Response to User Demand, Pidgin Forks
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Pidgin, the multi-platform open-source IM client that used to be called Gaim, has a lot of fans. The recent version 2.4.0 removed the user's ability to manually resize the input box, and many of those fans got mad.
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Bacula: backups that don't suck
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Good systems administrators know that implementing a robust backup procedure is one of their most important duties. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most complex and least fun. When the phone rings and there's a panic-stricken user on the other end who has just lost a crucial document, you need to be confident that you can promptly recover his missing files.
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List of Security Tools Available in Ubuntu
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The Ubuntu repositories contain several useful tools for maintaining a secure network and network administration.This security tools include network scanning,attack detection,Virus Detection etc.
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How to make Gnome menus Faster in Ubuntu
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If you want to make Gnome menus Faster in Ubuntu follow this procedure
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How To Make a Screencast
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Learn how-to make a screencast using one of a variety of tools Shawn Powers demonstrates in this video.
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Howto: Loop Movie, Video, and Display Screensaver as Desktop Wallpaper in Ubuntu Linux
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Want to loop a video clip or movie on your desktop? I did and found a nice little tool that does just that! Check out this easy howto
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Getting data into and out of an OpenOffice.org Base database
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The ability to import and export data is crucial to any database management system, and OpenOffice.org Base is no exception. While you may be surprised to discover that OpenOffice.org lacks a dedicated import/export feature, it does allow you to get data into and out of a database in a variety of ways.
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Hugin: Create a panorama under Ubuntu within 2 minutes
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You’ve always dreamt of making panoramas of your holidays pictures. You’ve never done it cause you’ve never found the good software into Ubuntu or it was too complicated to set up? Me too. Until recently and the discovery of Hugin.
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How to Cut MP3 files under Ubuntu
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If you want to cut MP3 files under Ubuntu,follow this instructions first you need to install poc-streamer package.poc is a suite of MP3 tools and MP3 streaming programs. It can stream MP3s over HTTP, RTP multicast (RFC 2250 and RFC 3119) and a special multicast protocol to enable the use of Forward Error Correction to protect the MP3 stream against packet loss. It can also stream OGGs over HTTP.
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Use sndpeek and custom algorithms to match voices to a pre-recorded library. Create applications to let you know who is speaking in teleconferences, podcasts, and live media events. Build basic assistance programs to help the hearing-impaired identify speakers in a bandwidth-limited context.
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Virtual Folders in KDE - Introducing Nepomuk virtual folders
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From the page: "You can tag files, you can annotate them, Strigi indexes your files, I showed how to create new information types and things, but you could not really use it. I suspect you want to find the things again by searching for it. Well, I don't think we should search. We should simply find! OK, enough of the bragging. Introducing Nepomuk virtual folders."
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Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode
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A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
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Xubuntu Hardy Heron is Ready for Takeoff
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“So far, so good.” That is all I can say when I tested Xubuntu 8.04 RC last night on my Macbook Pro. I didn’t want to wait for tomorrow’s distribution release because I know the download will be slow during that time due to expected heavy traffic. Anyway, the Release Candidate version will almost be the same as the finished product, I think.
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